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		petre 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location You can probably trivially shield the GPS with an aluminium foil sticker once you know where the antenna is. The GPS sgnal is very weak.

BenjiWiebe 21 days ago [–]

I think the GPS antenna is either omnidirectional or very nearly so., since my phone can get location in many orientations.

So I don't think a single foil sticker would make much difference.

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